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Addy Osmani explores the crucial approach of structured debugging, setting it apart from random code tweaks.
Roman Komarov introduces an innovative CSS strategy known as “layered toggles,” which allows for the application of selective styles and 37signals demonstrates how they employed contemporary CSS techniques in crafting Campfire, focusing on pure CSS sans any frameworks.
And Dan Cătălin Burzo provides an exhaustive manual on how to execute responsive images within HTML.
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This article by Javier Bórquez delves into motion extraction using mostly CSS, a technique for visualizing video motion by subtracting frames to highlight changes.
Roman Komarov introduces “layered toggles” as a novel technique for creating and applying optional CSS mixins through custom cascade layers, offering a versatile method for conditionally applying styles.
Offering both no-code and full code editing capabilities, Deco.cx simplifies the website building process, enabling rapid deployment with pre-built UI components and real-time drag-and-drop editing.
This article by Alexandru Ică presents three efficient methods for flattening Bézier curves and elliptical arcs into line segments, facilitating tasks like computing arc length or simplifying rendering processes.
This article by Dan Cătălin Burzo provides an in-depth explanation of responsive images in HTML, detailing both “fluid” images handled by CSS and “adaptive images” managed through HTML’s srcset, sizes attributes, and the picture element.
Chronon is an open source end-to-end feature platform that allows Machine Learning (ML) teams to easily build, deploy, manage and monitor data pipelines for machine learning.
…the first digital artwork, created by Ben Laposky in 1952, was made using an oscilloscope to manipulate electronic waves on a fluorescent screen? These waves, constantly moving and undulating, couldn’t be recorded on paper directly. By photographing the screen, Laposky captured these fleeting images, preserving a pivotal moment in the history of digital art.
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